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The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging constitutional validity of certain sections of the cyber law including a provision under which a person can be arrested for allegedly posting “offensive” contents on websites. A bench of justices J Chelameswar and R F Nariman reserved their judgement after Government concluded…

“Moral policing is not just a policing on morals, but also has a say on sexual behaviour, intellectual behaviour and governing behaviour. It is a sign of silencing,” said Shiv Visvanathan, social scientist, here on Saturday. He was delivering a lecture on the concluding day of communication fest ‘Article 19’ organised by the School of…

Only a small part — may be less than 25% — of Digital India is being implemented. But the government needs to facilitate the migration to a digital economy, says R Chandrashekhar, President, Nasscom Ahead of the Union Budget, IT industry lobby Nasscom has met the government and placed its list of demands and expectations…

Cisco, the global networking products giant, has been closely engaged with the creation of smart cities in the country. Today, with the government’s Digital India programme to create 100 smart cities, the company is further enthused about its plans for the market with all signs pointing in the right direction, says Padmasree Warrior, chief technology…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed IT industry leaders at a Nasscom gathering on the challenges the country faced, and asked the industry to contribute towards the “Digital India” campaign, which he launched last year. He highlighted a bunch of areas where intervention for technology companies is needed — like in the space of…

The government has reaffirmed its commitment to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural communication infrastructure. “We are making good progress towards making Digital India,” said finance minister Arun Jaitley, while presenting the Union Budget 2015-16 in Parliament on Saturday. The Digital India programme is aimed to make India a knowledge and innovation-based society…

The ambitious Digital India initiative itself did not find any specific mention in finance minister Arun Jaitley’s speech, apart from a commitment to the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and its implementation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and, eventually, in the East and North-East. Photo: PTI First, a big shout-out to the finance minister for…

In its first full Union Budget, the government seems to be making good on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make-in-India initiative. The core campaign revolves around making India the manufacturing hub of the world, and for this to happen we need a highly skilled pool of human resources. Finance minister Arun Jaitley’s announcement to launch a…

“The world is predicting that it is India’s chance to fly.” In his Budget speech the finance minister has indicated that the current account deficit for the year is expected to be below 1.3% of the GDP, and real GDP growth is expected to accelerate to 7.4%, making India the fastest growing large economy in…